Paul Ryan shocked the political world yesterday by saying he's not ready to back Trump yet. Do I think he eventually will? Yeah, I actually do. Do I think he'll really back Trump? No. He'll just say it in public and be done with it in a few months. Yesterday though, he made his point. Paul Ryan has more pride than to simply bow to the wishes of someone like Donald Trump.
Ryan isn't alone, Presidents George W. Bush and his father George H.W. Bush also said they would not comment on the Presidential race, which is the polite, Republican way of saying they can live with four years of Hillary Clinton. The common-theme here though is that these three men all can afford to say this. There's lives are fairly set, they are in many ways bigger than the party. There are some people not quite in their shoes, people like Senator Ben Sasse, who are saying the same, and that is actually admirable. Even there though, we're talking about U.S. Senators.
The question is actually a lot more complicated for the common Republican voter. If you don't want to be a part of Donald Trump's angry mob, what to do? Do you have the pride to continue to stand against this fraud, as you did in the primaries, or not? Are you Paul Ryan, publicly stating you're not comfortable with this, or are you Chris Christie and Rand Paul, a couple of sell-outs who couldn't stand on their own two feet here? The choice is your's now.
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